mounting a floppy drive

[mckarl]

please help... floppy drives ... any experts??<br>
<br>
karl.<br>

 

[vickersdc]

What about them...?

 

[ElgisRamon]

Actual AIX doesn't officially support floppy filesystems, but you can find how to build read-only ones reading the AIX FAQ.

Do you want to mount DOS floppies?
I hope it works...
Unix was made by and for smart people.

 

[hackey37]

mount /dev/rfd0 (?) if you have a floppy properly formatted. If it is dos floppy, you may want to snoop around the net for the aix2dos utility or was it dos2aix? HTH - hackey37

 

[vickersdc]

Or just use the built-in dosread, doswrite, dosdel dosformat and dosdir commands.

Cheers.
Dave V.

 

[Guest_imported]

just curios? are you saving or retrieving file/s from the floppy diskette? if so, you can use &quot;tar&quot; command.

 

[uabsp]

I'm trying to read a floppy in AIX 4.3.3 I realize that I have to mount the floppy but when I try to mount it, I get the following messages:
mount /dev/rfd0 /floppy
mount: 0506-324 Cannot mount /dev/rfd0 on /floppy: A file or directory in the pa
th name does not exist.

mount /dev/fd0 /floppy
mount: 0506-322 Cannot determine log device to use for /dev/fd0 (/floppy).

Can someone give me advice?

 

[unixtechie]

Use the dosread command:

dosread /dev/fd0